There are during the Christmas season moments of quiet. They are important. Christmas is full of joy, family, turkey, chocolates, gifts and good times. It is also, as you know, place of reflection. We do allow ourselves to stray into that time warp where we meet “the ghost of
I never tire of writing about television, especially at Christmas. We are light years away now from where we were with Christmas when we got our first television set back in 1960. Television burst into Newfoundland homes when CJON went on the air. The television set really replaced the
My dad first said that phrase to me a long time ago. They were old words of wisdom and what they mean is that you should form your opinion of someone based on your direct dealings with them and not based on what others may say about them.
In the course of writing opinion pieces, it is obvious that you really can’t please everyone all the time. Differences of opinion make the world go round.
Now the angriest a reader ever became over something that I wrote was from a piece that wasn’t about
I watched the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees in the World Series this year. I am connected to the Dodgers and Yanks by an odd link. That link is school, specifically my old school, St. Bon’s.
In 1955 it was an all- boys
Donald Trump has been elected again to be President of the United States. It is hard to believe. He didn’t steal the presidency. He didn’t get himself elected under false pretences. He told everyone exactly the way he was and what he stood for. On election day the people
I went for a drive last week into what was my distant past. My goal was to look at some places and things that were a part of that past but had been squeezed aside by such things as work, family responsibilities and time. I wanted to see if
It’s fitting that icebergs are front and center every Spring and have worked their icyway into our commerce. It’s a “good” year for icebergs, some say, and means something. They matter to us. They are dollars in a place badly in need of dollars.
The problem
In the mid 1980s my habit on Friday evenings after the news was to go to a friend’s house for a couple of drinks. My wife, Judy, worked in the same NTV building as I did, and she would drop me off and go for the Friday groceries. It
For those old enough to remember the early days of television in Newfoundland there was a brilliant promo for what was then CJON-TV. It said that CJON was “Your Window on the World”. It was very true. Television was, and is, a technological social force without equal in the